Guild Wars 2

I have seen many threads asking for a race change item in the gemstore and I completely understand the arguments against it because of things like the personal story and racial skills. These arguments make perfect sense.

Therefore, I request a contract with Lyssa, the Goddess of Beauty and Illusion (which by the way is killer — is all beauty illusion?) that would allow me to change only my appearance. All else — story, racial skills, home instance and any other intricate personal element — would remain exactly the same, only the outward appearance and animations would change. I understand that this goes beyond the scope of the total make-over kit and I would be willing to pay more for it.

Thank you for your consideration.

Then the problem would be the animations.
For example, you are a norn and want to change to a sylvari, but only your skin changes, so you’ll still have the norn racial skills, those could have issues if cast in a sylvari skin.

But so far your idea is the most plausible one.

I’d buy it immediately and without hesitation. There might be a bit of animation adjustment to make, but I don’t care if my Charr, who now looks like an Asura or a Human or a Norn goes to cast a Charr racial skill and the animation becomes…idk, fireball, or healing spring or tome of wrath or whatever they decide to throw in there- who cares as long as I don’t have to look like a Charr anymore. Please make this. Can I pre-pay for it?

Belzebu.3912:

Then the problem would be the animations.
For example, you are a norn and want to change to a sylvari, but only your skin changes, so you’ll still have the norn racial skills, those could have issues if cast in a sylvari skin.

But so far your idea is the most plausible one.

Good point, and one I had actually considered before making my post and deciding that it could work anyway.

I don’t know how many times in the game my Asura has used a Charzooka while battling against Jormag. I know that most of the human skills and all of the Norn skills are form skills, and all of the races already change form in the open world. Remember there are heart areas that require the player to become the snow leopard which is one of the Norn elite skills, guild missions require us to appear as chickens or bears, there are lots of places that we change into other forms. My point is that most of the animations already exist in the game for all races. In addition, since PvP doesn’t allow the use of racial skills it would be possible to add or use any animation that was already in the game to cover any that didn’t already exist, since the animations would not need to be recognized or countered by other players.

The other thing I had considered but not included in my original post was cultural armor. I would expect if something along this line were to be included in the game that the player could only display the cultural armor of the race his character was currently presenting. If my human born character were currently presenting as a Charr they could only wear Charr cultural armor. They might own other cultural armor, but they would not be able to wear it — doing so would break the racial illusion.

Personally, I would be willing to accept some restrictions to get my character to appear as I would like to see it. I know very few people who actually use racial skills. Cultural armor is another matter